Gundoc, point well taken, that was just an example, I don't actually drive in that state but there have been a few late night trips back from the inlaws or what have you that I would have preferred to sleep on the way home rather than sleep at a rest stop, lol.
I think a lot of the distrust of the self driving cars comes from a lack of knowledge as to how they work. We need to completely ignore the Tesla as it's not a true self driving car and I suspect they'll get in more trouble over naming it Autopilot and setting false expectations than the implementation itself. The Google car is what we need to focus on, a full array of sensors that see road conditions in a way no human ever could, multiple redundant systems, etc. The Google car has self driven over 1.5 million miles in real world conditions and only 12 minor collisions only one of which was the self driving cars fault, the others were either someone else rear ending the car or the Google car was being driven by a person at the time, lol. I know that's a small sample size but even in development testing the self driving car has caused less accidents than the human behind the wheel. The one time it was the Google cars fault what happened is the Google car failed to account for the erratic nature of L.A. buses, lol, the lane the car was in reached some construction and needed to veer a little into the next lane to avoid some sandbags, the google car stopped and waited for an appropriate gap and then slowly pulled out to go around some sandbags failing to realize that an L.A. bus will not slow or stop for anything and the bus clipped the nose of the google car. Google has since corrected this, and it's certainly worth noting that hundreds of human drivers make that same kind of mistake every single day, day in and day out, the Google car made that mistake once and will never make it again. The transition will also not likely be as sketchy as some think because the NTSB has already called for all new vehicles to have connected vehicle technology so that all vehicles in proximity to each other will communicate basic info like speed, wheel position, throttle/brake position etc. to the vehicles around them so vehicles with driver assists like the emergency braking coming in a lot of cars now or the self driving cars will be in communication with non-self driving cars so the instant someone tries to turn the wheel to make that unexpected turn at the intersection or change lanes on the highway, all the cars around it are aware of it before any human could possibly even notice the movement let alone the reaction time delay, the decision making after evaluating the surroundings, and then the time to make an evasive action, in the time it takes for a human to do all this (and each human in the vicinity doing it differently) all the cars with assists or self driving would have all agreed on the correct course of action for every car there and be implementing it already.
As someone with a love for doing things the old way I certainly understand the concern for loss of skills etc., but there's a fine line between saying no one knows how to change their own oil anymore and saying something ridiculous like we should never have invented anti-lock brakes because no one knows how to pump the brakes anymore, you see what I mean?
